sfdisk is a

Linux Linux ( or ) is a family of open-source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991, by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged as a Linux distribution, which i ...

partition editor A disk editor is a computer program that allows its user to read, edit, and write raw data (at character or hexadecimal, byte-levels) on disk drives (e.g., hard disks, USB flash disks or removable media such as a floppy disks); as such, they are ...

. In contrast to

fdisk In computing, the fdisk command-line utility provides disk-partitioning functions, preparatory to defining file systems. fdisk features in the DOS, DR FlexOS, IBM OS/2, and Microsoft Windows operating systems, and in certain ports of Free ...

and

cfdisk cfdisk is a Linux partition editor, similar to fdisk, but with a different, curses-based user interface. It is part of the util-linux package of Linux utility programs. The current cfdisk implementation utilizes the libfdisk library

, sfdisk is not interactive. All three programs are written in C and are part of the

util-linux is a standard package distributed by the Linux Kernel Organization for use as part of the Linux operating system. A fork, (with meaning "next generation"), was created when development stalled, but has been renamed back to , and is the off ...

package of Linux utility programs. Since sfdisk is command-driven instead of menu-driven, i.e., it reads input from

standard input In computer programming, standard streams are interconnected input and output communication channels between a computer program and its environment when it begins execution. The three input/output (I/O) connections are called standard input (stdin ...

or from a file, it is generally used for partitioning drives from scripts or used by programs, like e.g.

KDE Partition Manager KDE Partition Manager is a disk partitioning application originally written by Volker Lanz for the KDE Platform. It was first released for KDE SC 4.1 and is released independently of the central KDE release cycle. After the death of Volker Lan ...

. The current sfdisk implementation uses the libfdisk library. sfdisk supports

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(DOS), GPT, SUN and SGI disk labels, but it no longer provides any functionality for CHS (Cylinder-Head-Sector) addressing since version 2.26.

References

External links

ManualDebian Packagesfdisk(8) - Linux man page
Free partitioning software Linux file system-related software {{storage-software-stub

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